*[http://www.iseemedia.com/panorama/productinfo.html PhotoVISTA] Creates panoramas and 360°'s. Commercial. Available for Windows and Mac.

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*[http://www.iseemedia.com/panorama/productinfo.html PhotoVISTA] Creates panoramas and 360�'s. Commercial. Available for Windows and Mac.

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*[[3DVista Stitcher]] (commercial) Supports donut (oneshot) images

*[[3DVista Stitcher]] (commercial) Supports donut (oneshot) images

== Helpers ==

== Helpers ==

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*[[Autopano]] automatically identifies control points. Works on the command line or as a plug-in for Hugin, PTAssembler, PTGUI

*[[Autopano]] automatically identifies control points. Works on the command line or as a plug-in for Hugin, PTAssembler, PTGUI

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*[[Enblend]] overlays images so to make the seam invisible. Works on the command line or as a plug-in for Hugin and PTGUI

*[[Enblend]] overlays images so to make the seam invisible. Works on the command line or as a plug-in for Hugin and PTGUI

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*[[Remallax]] removes some parallax of hand-shot panoramas prior to stitching. Just a project in inception, nothing usable available

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*[[Enblend Front End]] simplifies the use of Enblend

*[[Enblend Front End]] simplifies the use of Enblend

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*[[Enfuse]] combines multiple exposure bracketed images.

*[http://www.fsoft.it/panorama/apclean.htm APClean] is a program that can be used to quickly remove wrong control points (sometimes created by Autopano) from a PTGui project file. It can also be used to see which image pairs are linked by control points.

*[http://www.fsoft.it/panorama/apclean.htm APClean] is a program that can be used to quickly remove wrong control points (sometimes created by Autopano) from a PTGui project file. It can also be used to see which image pairs are linked by control points.

*[[Pano2QTVR]] is a new and very promising Windows freeware project to convert equirectangular (360°x180°) panos to QuickTime cubic movies and link them together to virtual tours. Includes [[hotspots|Hotspot]] Editor.

*[[SmartBlend]] overlays images so to make the seam invisible. Works on the command line or as a plug-in for Hugin and PTGUI. Other than enblend [[SmartBlend]] attempts to remove parallax and similar errors from seams.

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*[[Pano2QTVR]] is a new and very promising Windows freeware project to convert equirectangular (360�x180�) panos to QuickTime cubic movies and link them together to virtual tours. Includes Hotspot Editor.

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== Photoshop ==

== Photoshop ==

=== Plug-ins ===

=== Plug-ins ===

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* [[How to install plug-ins in Photoshop]]

* [[How to install plug-ins in Photoshop]]

* The [[Panorama Tools Plugins]] are part of the original [[Panorama tools]] by [[Helmut Dersch]] recently made 16 bit compliant and actionable by [http://epaperpress.com/ptplugins/ Thomas Niemann]

* The [[Panorama Tools Plugins]] are part of the original [[Panorama tools]] by [[Helmut Dersch]] recently made 16 bit compliant and actionable by [http://epaperpress.com/ptplugins/ Thomas Niemann]

The [[Gimp]] is a sophisticated image editor similar to [[Photoshop]].

The [[Gimp]] is a sophisticated image editor similar to [[Photoshop]].

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There are several [[Gimp#Panoramic_photography_related_gimp_plugins|panoramic photography related gimp plugins]] that can be used to manipulate panoramas.

There are several [[Gimp#Panoramic_photography_related_gimp_plugins|panoramic photography related gimp plugins]] that can be used to manipulate panoramas.

== Viewers ==

== Viewers ==

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*[[PTViewer]] Original panotools viewer. Recent versions are 3.1.2 from [http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ Helmut Dersch] (capable of adaptive dynamic range display) and 2.7L2 from [http://www.fsoft.it/panorama/PTViewer.htm Fulvio Senore] with better interpolator and numerous additions to the original Dersch version 2.5

*[[PTViewer]] Original panotools viewer. Recent versions are 3.1.2 from [http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ Helmut Dersch] (capable of adaptive dynamic range display) and 2.7L2 from [http://www.fsoft.it/panorama/PTViewer.htm Fulvio Senore] with better interpolator and numerous additions to the original Dersch version 2.5

*[[3D Vista]] - Another easy to use tour creater, but with less options. Also supports donuts.

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*[[JATC]] - Just Another TourCreator. Creating tours for SPi-V and PurePlayer. Freeware.

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*[[3D Vista]] - Another easy to use tour creater, but with less options.

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== Non-Panoramic use ==

== Non-Panoramic use ==

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*[[PTShift]] [[chromatic aberration]] determination

*[[PTShift]] [[chromatic aberration]] determination

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*[[PTLens]] lens distortion correction

*[[PTLens]] lens distortion correction

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*[[Extended Depth-Of-Field]] creats masked layers for a focus-bracketed series of images. From [http://www.janrik.net/ptools/ExtendedFocusPano12/ Rik Littlefield]

*[[Extended Depth-Of-Field]] creats masked layers for a focus-bracketed series of images. From [http://www.janrik.net/ptools/ExtendedFocusPano12/ Rik Littlefield]

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*GIMP: Save Layers in seperate files. Little Helper for Multilayer TIFF. If you are using multilayer tiff with GIMP for optimizing blending, you might need this script for saving every layer to a seperate file. Download [http://www.panoclub.de/needstuff/gimp/scripts/continous_save.zip continous_save.zip]

*GIMP: Save Layers in seperate files. Little Helper for Multilayer TIFF. If you are using multilayer tiff with GIMP for optimizing blending, you might need this script for saving every layer to a seperate file. Download [http://www.panoclub.de/needstuff/gimp/scripts/continous_save.zip continous_save.zip]

== Printing ==

== Printing ==

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*[http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/ QImage] is a commercial tool for printing up to 100.000 pixels wide images on roll paper even across paper size limitations (on some printers)

*[http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/ QImage] is a commercial tool for printing up to 100.000 pixels wide images on roll paper even across paper size limitations (on some printers)

APClean is a program that can be used to quickly remove wrong control points (sometimes created by Autopano) from a PTGui project file. It can also be used to see which image pairs are linked by control points.

Pano2QTVR is a new and very promising Windows freeware project to convert equirectangular (360°x180°) panos to QuickTime cubic movies and link them together to virtual tours. Includes Hotspot Editor.

SmartBlend overlays images so to make the seam invisible. Works on the command line or as a plug-in for Hugin and PTGUI. Other than enblend SmartBlend attempts to remove parallax and similar errors from seams.

Plugins for the Gimp

Viewers

PTViewer Original panotools viewer. Recent versions are 3.1.2 from Helmut Dersch (capable of adaptive dynamic range display) and 2.7L2 from Fulvio Senore with better interpolator and numerous additions to the original Dersch version 2.5

Non-Panoramic use

GIMP: Save Layers in seperate files. Little Helper for Multilayer TIFF. If you are using multilayer tiff with GIMP for optimizing blending, you might need this script for saving every layer to a seperate file. Download continous_save.zip

Printing

QImage is a commercial tool for printing up to 100.000 pixels wide images on roll paper even across paper size limitations (on some printers)